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From 1976 until his retirement in 2005, Primavera was conductor and professor of orchestration, chamber music, and musicianship at the
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Performing Arts Award of the Philadelphia Civic Ballet Company, the 1999 Distinguished Service Award of the Pennsylvania-Delaware String Teachers with School Orchestra Association, and the 2001 Arts Recognition Award of the Society for the Performing Arts of the Media Theatre.
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Philadelphia Orchestra. Until he retired in 2005, Primavera had served as the longest-tenured active conductor in the world as Maestro and Music Director of the
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